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...money as a share of GDP than the rest of the population of 188 million, sucking investment from badly neglected areas like education. Says Renato Fragelli, director of the Graduate School of Economics at the Fundação Getulio Vargas think tank in Rio de Janeiro: "The time to fix a roof is when the sun shines--but when the sun shines, Brazilians go to the beach...
Congressional Democrats must feel a little disoriented by the emerging battle over how to pay for this year's fix for the Alternative Minimum Tax. The party that usually never misses an opportunity to portray itself as the champion of the working class suddenly isn't so wild about making a certain share of wealthy Americans pony up more cash to alleviate the impact of the AMT on millions of middle-class Americans. And for once, the Dems will be downright relieved if President Bush delivers on his veto threat, in this case effectively taking the difficult decision...
...billion measure at issue, passed last week by the House of Representatives, is the latest one-year band-aid to fix the AMT. Created in 1969 to ensure that the rich would pay at least a minimum amount of tax annually, the AMT has ended up walloping an increasing share of the middle class. This year 21 million "ordinary" Americans will be hit by it if Congress doesn...
...third of alumni working in low-income communities.Still, Biber recognizes the importance of all career fields to the common goal of improving the country’s public school system and, in turn, the country as a whole. “We believe that in order to really fix social justice, we need leaders in education reform but we also need people in law and in policy and in business and in medicine who have done something like this first. They really understand what the problems look like in the schools and they understand what the solutions look like...
...free agent signing period gets going this week, the union is sufficiently frightened that the fix could be in again that it is gearing up an investigation. "Any such activity with respect to free agents is clearly improper," says Donald Fehr, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Player's Association. "We expect to look into the situation, and are prepared to take appropriate action to respond to any collusive behavior, and to make sure the rights of free agent players under the Basic [collective bargaining] Agreement are fully protected...